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Hector Boece

Born

Panbride, Carnoustie, Angus, Scotland

Genre

History, Chronicles, Philosophy

Influences

John of Fordun, Erasmus, William Elphinstone, Tacitus, Duns Scotus ...more

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Hector Boece (also spelled Boyce or Boise; 1465 – 1536), known in Latin as Hector Boecius or Boethius, was a Scottish philosopher and historian, and the first Principal of King's College in Aberdeen.

He was educated at the University of St. Andrews. Later he studied at the University of Paris where he met Erasmus, with whom he became close friends while they were both students at the Collège de Montaigu, to whose reforming Master, Jan Standonck, Boece later became Secretary. By 1497 he had become a professor of philosophy at Collège de Montaigu.

In 1500, he was induced to leave Paris for Aberdeen by a generously financed offer to become the first principal of the newly established University of Aberdeen, created at the behest of James IV by W ...more

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	The Buik of the Chronicles of Scotland: or A Metrical Version of the History of Hector Boece, Set by Hector Boece, William Stewart (Translator), William Barclay Turnbull (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1858 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Theatre of Scottish Worthies: and The Lyf, Doings, and Deathe of William Elphinston, Bishop of Aberdeen by Hector Boece, Alexander Garden 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Buik of the Croniclis of Scotland: or A Metrical Version of the History of Hector Boece by Hector Boece, William Stewart 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chronicle of Scotland 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1527	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Buik of the Croniclis of Scotland: or, A Metrical Version of the History of Hector Boece, Volume 1 by Hector Boece, William Stewart (Translator), W. B. Turnbull (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1858 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hectoris Boetii Murthlacensium et Aberdonensium Episcoporum Vitae, Volume 12 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1522 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hectoris Boetii Murthlacensium et Aberdonensium Episcoporum Vitae 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1522 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Publications, Issue 12: Hectoris Boetii Murthlacensium et Aberdonensium Episcoporum Vitae by Hector Boece, The New Spalding Club 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1894 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The History and Chronicles of Scotland, Volume 2 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1527 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The History and Chronicles of Scotland, Volume 1 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1527 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars